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The Serious Fraud Office has laid Crimes Act charges against Victor John Clarke, a former director of failed media company MediaWeb, in the Auckland District Court for alleged offending involving $2.2 million. The two false accounting charges including using a forged document and obtaining by deception in his role as overseeing the accounting and financial aspects of the failed business. …

Callaghan Innovation has suspended a research and development growth grant to Trends Publishing International Ltd, the first time it’s done so, following an audit of its funding claims and referred the matter to the Serious Fraud Office. Trends got approval for a three-year Growth Grant in March this year and had received $332,966 before the grant was put on hold. Callaghan Innovation …

Prime Minister John Key has been handed a cast-iron excuse to rid his government of its troublesome Justice Minister, Judith Collins, using an email supplied anonymously to his office yesterday which appears to show Collins conspiring with the Whaleoil blog run by National Party activist Cameron Slater to unseat the then head of the Serious Fraud Office, Adam Feeley, in 2011. Collins was …

The Serious Fraud Office has charge seven people over a series of alleged mortgage frauds between July 2007 and December 2010. The white-collar crime investigator has laid 48 Crimes Act charges against the group, with the primary defendant Eli Devoy, it said in a statement. Devoy, who goes by the name Ellie Stone, faces 26 charges and is accused of …

The Serious Fraud Office has lost the first round in it its bid to appeal a ruling clearing Capital + Merchant Finance directors Wayne Douglas and Neal Nicholls over the so-called ‘Hub loans’. In the High Court in Auckland, Justice Edwin Wylie turned down the Crown’s application for the judge to revisit three questions of law surrounding the Palmerston North …